REMARKS
Councilmember Narcisse expresses concerns about public health challenges
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Councilmember Mercedes Narcisse, a registered nurse, expresses anxiety about the current public health situation and the challenges faced by DOHMH. She acknowledges the difficulty of the task at hand and raises concerns about recent funding cuts.
- Highlights the importance of detecting, preventing, and responding to diseases
- Mentions recent federal and state funding cuts affecting New York City
- Raises questions about providing services for infectious diseases and building trust in vaccines
Mercedes Narcisse
1:26:45
Good morning and thank you chair both of you.
1:26:48
And I'm not gonna get to the name.
1:26:52
So thank you so much.
1:26:55
I wanna say thank you to Doctor.
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Morris and Doctor.
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Gupta.
1:27:00
I don't want to say it wrong.
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So thank you.
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You realize that you have the world on your shoulder right now when it comes partnership with you.
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Have it on your shoulder.
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And as my colleagues, I mean my colleague mentioned that you are doing a very nice job, so I want to say thank you for that.
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Thank you.
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It is difficult time.
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I'm anxious for you.
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I have lots of anxiety by sitting here for all the questions.
1:27:34
Being a healthcare professional registered nurse, it hurt my heart knowing that everything we do is about detecting, preventing, and of course responding.
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How we're gonna respond to all those things, to all the diseases that are coming our way.
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We agree that we are hub of the world.
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Everybody passed through.
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I can tell you my experience during COVID nineteen when I was somewhere else in Europe, when coming back and I'm saying to myself, said this thing's gonna hit us hard and it sure did hit us hard.
1:28:12
So we know the needs and now how we can trust the federal government like recently about last week, they took $80,000,000 out of New York City.
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And we have the state for the undocumented, when you're talking about hospital, we lost almost 56 he took 80,000,000 and then the state take about 56 something million for undocumented things, that services that we can provide in our hospital.
1:28:43
That is so scary.
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My question to you, how we're going to provide the services for infectious diseases and continuing with the vaccines, we know the trust is not there.
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A lot of folks don't have no trust and looking at the federal now, who's responsible for that, how we gonna continue building trust in our community to get people to get vaccines?